Duan Linfeng gave Jiang Zhinian a slight nod, looking so polite and distant that it was as though they really had only just met.
"Hello, Senior Lu." Jiang Zhinian turned his smiling gaze toward Lu Chiyan and gave him a slight bow as well. His manners were impeccable.
"I wouldn't dare accept that title. You're twenty, and I'm twenty-two. With you calling me senior, who knows how many people would slam me for not knowing my place, daring to call myself a senior when I've only debuted a few years ago and barely have any work to my name," Lu Chiyan said.
He knew all too well what little schemes Jiang Zhinian was hiding. He was clearly digging a pit for him.
He wasn't stupid. Whoever wanted to jump into that pit could go right ahead. He certainly wouldn't.
[What kind of person is Lu Chiyan? Isn't he judging a gentleman by his own petty standards? Is our Nianbao wrong for being polite?]
[I seriously can't. One "senior" and he starts finding fault. You say you're not a senior, but you're certainly putting on airs like one.]
[I don't think there's anything wrong with what Lu Chiyan said. No one's picking on that title now because he brought it up himself. But if he hadn't pointed out the problem with it and had tacitly accepted Jiang Zhinian calling him senior, haters definitely would've accused him of putting on airs. He's just a newcomer who hasn't been in the industry long, either. Having people say that about him would seriously damage his reputation, okay?]
[Lu Chiyan might have been a little blunt, but his reasoning is sound. Jiang Zhinian really did use the wrong term, so you can't say this is Lu Chiyan's fault, can you? At most, Lu Chiyan was a little too direct and left Jiang Zhinian looking embarrassed! But we're all adults, and they're not close friends. Why should I have to go so far to save your face?]
[If we get a little conspiratorial, Jiang Zhinian might have done it on purpose. I don't know why, but I don't really like him. His innocent little white rabbit persona always feels so fake. You're in the entertainment industry. Just how innocent can you be?]
[Lu Chiyan snapping back at everyone and everything actually makes him seem open and aboveboard. Jiang Zhinian looking all aggrieved, as if everyone's bullying him, honestly leaves me speechless.]
[This show's only been on for ten minutes, and I've already flip-flopped between cursing Lu Chiyan and apologizing to him three or four times.]
Jiang Zhinian bit his lower lip in grievance and lowered his head, looking pitiful, as though he had been bullied. A glimmer of tears even appeared in his eyes, inviting sympathy. "I'm sorry, that wasn't what I meant... I just thought that since Senior Lu debuted before me, it would be more polite to address you that way. If you don't like me calling you that, Senior Lu, I'll use something else. Whatever you say."
"You don't know what to call me?" Lu Chiyan frowned, feigning confusion. "Really? Why do I remember you having all sorts of names for me in private?"
Jiang Zhinian's expression stiffened for an instant, but he quickly put on that aggrieved, fragile mask again and said meekly, "Senior Lu, why don't I understand what you're saying? I don't think we know each other in private."
"How do we not?" Lu Chiyan raised an eyebrow. "Aren't you the side piece my ex-boyfriend Duan Linfeng is keeping?"
Jiang Zhinian's expression froze instantly, and the color drained from his face.
He shot Lu Chiyan a vicious glare, his gaze seemingly steeped in poison. He wanted to kill Lu Chiyan.
How dare Lu Chiyan! How dare he say something like that on this livestream show?